“No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell.”
“The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.”
“Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed.”
“Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.”
“Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence—that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally. —Enid Healy”
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”